8. Truly has been stated,[188] and accurately has been computed that
which is marked down; for the luminaries, the months, the fixed periods,
the years, and the days, Uriel has explained to me, and communicated to
me;[189] whom the Lord of all creation, on my account, commanded
(according to the might of heaven, and the power which it possesses both
by night and by day) to explain _the laws of_ light to man, of the sun,
moon, and stars, and of all the powers of heaven, which are turned with
their respective orbs.
9. This is the ordinance of the stars, which set in their places, in
their seasons, in their periods, in their days, and in their months.
10. These are the names of those who conduct them, who watch and enter
in their seasons, according to their ordinance in their periods, in
their months, in _the times of_ their influence, and in their stations.
11. Four conductors of them first enter, who separate the four quarters
of the year. After these, twelve conductors of their classes, who
separate the months and the year _into_ three hundred and sixty-four
_days_, with the leaders of a thousand, who distinguish between the
days, as well as between the four additional ones; which, _as_
conductors, divide the four quarters of the year.
12. These leaders of a thousand are in the midst of the conductors, and
the conductors are added each behind his station, and their conductors
make the separation. These are the names of the conductors, who separate
the four quarters of the year, who are appointed _over them_: Melkel,
Helammelak,